Bert Berns
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Bert Berns: The Soul Man with a Huckster's Heart
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, March 1998
HE WAS, said Jerry Wexler, "a paunchy, nervous cat with a shock of unruly black hair". He looked like a vaguely disreputable cross between Gene ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
b. Bert Russell, 1929, d. 31 December 1967, New York, USA ...
Cry to Him: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns
Book Excerpt by Joel Selvin, 'Here Comes The Night' (Counterpoint Books), April 2014
In these two excerpts from Joel Selvin's splendid new biography of Bert Berns, the soul hustler from the Bronx oversees the 1961 session for Solomon ...
Hit Man: Joel Selvin's Here Comes the Night
Book Review by Robert Gordon, The New York Times Book Review, 30 May 2014
BERT BERNS the producer is the Phil Spector you've never heard of. Bert Berns the songwriter is the Leiber and Stoller you've never heard of. ...
Book Review by Kirk Silsbee, Downbeat, July 2014
AMERICAN POP MUSIC from the no-man's-land after The Day The Music Died (Buddy Holly's fatal 1959 plane crash) and before the arrival of the Beatles ...
'Sloopy' Hangs On: How a Latin-R&B Song Became a Pop-Rock Anthem
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2016
'HANG ON SLOOPY' is one of the dozen or so songs (along with 'Wild Thing,' 'Gloria,' 'Louie Louie,' 'Twist and Shout,' 'Hey Joe') that make ...
Bert Berns: The Ecstatic Agony of a Producer/Songwriter
Report and Interview by Mitchell Cohen, Best Classic Bands, 7 August 2016
The Rock Hall member behind such classics as 'Brown Eyed Girl,' 'Twist and Shout' and more. ...
Roll with the Punches: An Interview with Jerry Ragovoy
Interview by Dan Nooger, Record Collector, May 2017
The late Jerry Ragovoy wrote and arranged some of the greatest records of the last century. This unpublished interview by Dan Nooger found him recalling ...
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